The 1946 US Championship. Denker runs out of legroom while Reshevsky seems comfortable. The other fellow's job is to relay moves via wired microphone to a separate hall with demo boards set up for all the games.
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Mar 19, 2009
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"The other fellow's job is to relay moves via wired microphone to a separate hall with demo boards set up for all the games."
I wonder what Fischer would have thought of that set-up?
In 1946 defending US champion Denker flew out to California to answer a challenge from Herman Steiner for the title. Denker won 6-4. Steiner had his day though when he won the US title in 1948.
Nice pics
Amazing pictures.
Mir Sultan Khan, He played one of my favorite games ever at Hastings 1930. Just a beautiful game to look at. Also defeating Capablanca soundly.
Spassky returns to Iceland and revisits the table and pieces he and Bobby used in 1972. The board is stone, the opening odd, and Boris is making a point. He's also sitting on Bobby's side; his signature is opposite.
Boris Spassky, age 12
thanks for your interpretation of Bobby´s handwritting
paul211 wrote:
post#402 by bobbyPR,
Can anyone provide analysis of Bobby Fisher's handwritting?
I know a little but not a lot.
The inclination of the letters are mostly vertical or to the right.
It indicates a battle within Fisher's personality to contain or expose his emotions to the world.
The vertical letters show control, independancy and tends to demonstrate a logical person void of emotions, trying to hold back emotions.
The inclination to the right shows a definite tendency to reach to others and be emotional and confide. It also says that he his a giving caring person interested in others outcome in life before his own.
The heavy pressure on the pen reveals strong emotions.The physical and emotional energy is great with a good pressure on the pen showing a will to win and a desire to succeed.
Since more of the inclination is vertical, in critical emotional situations his head will rule and he will be cool.
His writing is very straight showing again control of goal direction.
Centering his notes demonstrates his awareness of spatial things and reveals an artistic side.
A review of 3 of his letters do demonstrate his strong character in maintaining control and emotions.
If anyone can add, just do it I am an amateur in calligraphy.
Here is a link to Bobby's handwritten letters:
While this analysis is very impressive, it may not be proper. I say this since I once was really into this. At the beginning of the course it is stated, that the writing can NOT be "rushed". I believe that this scoresheet is a rush job. Most of us when we play, and have to write down the moves, we may want to spend minimal time doing it. Most of our time will be focused on the board. Recording moves take second priority, and such, the action is rushed. Therefore the analysis of this particular piece is not going to give you clues...
As noted in a previous post, Darin was a big chess fan and was sponsoring a well-funded international tournament when he sudddenly died.
While taking a short jump in a small plane in Argentina after his match with Petrosian, Fischer concentrates on his pocket set instead of the scenery.
Mar 20, 2009
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Paul, to portion the picture, just before you insert it to this page, there is a dimensions box (you can see this field if you hit the insert/images icon or green icon above, after the chess board and before the B for bold). If the picture looks too big, then bring the dimensions down. If it says 1600 by 1600 and is too big, then make it 800 by 800 and it will fit.
Horowitz was one of the handful of best players in the US in the late 1930s and the 1940s, and into the 1950s.
As owner of Chess Review he barnstormed across the country for years, offering a board in one of his simultaneous exhibitions for the price of a subscription to Chess Review. You'd get a game as well as a year of the magazine. A great deal for any chess fan.
In one of the simuls someone got the idea that it would be great fun to get Fine to show up to one of these exhibitions, dressed up in the garb of an Italian worker. One look at those soft, woodpushing hands would have given the ruse up immediately.
That is brilliant! How long did it take him to notice, I wonder.
One of the nicest couples of the chess community
Petra and Viktor Korchnoi - Dresden, February 2007
Mar 21, 2009
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''In the first ever traditional chess match between a man (world champion Garry Kasparov) and a computer (IBM's Deep Blue) in 1996, Deep Blue won one game, tied two and lost three. The next year, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a six-game match -- the first time a reigning world champion lost a match to a computer opponent in tournament play. Deep Blue was a combination of special purpose hardware and software with an IBM RS/6000 SP2 (seen here) -- a system capable of examining 200 million moves per second, or 50 billion positions, in the three minutes allocated for a single move in a chess game.''
paul211 wrote:
Wow! this is the greatest forum that I have read in a year since I have been a member.
Goldendog you have hit the goldennugget.
Thanks for your great idea of this forum.
Now I did notice a few posts that similar problems to what I had in poosting here.
Thank you! I knew it was a good idea but the way it took off truly surprised me. Thanks to the contributors here I've got a bunch of new and great pics stashed away.
Chess is so much richer with its history and culture. I also love going into the time machine and glimpsing the way it was.
"Gonzales was also a doctor and he got a cover shot on Chess Review in his whites working a chess board. The caption: Prescription for speed."
clever.
"The 1946 Women's Championship was barely covered in Chess Review."
and barely covered by the NYTimes
"It was also called rapid transit chess back in the 1950's"
Did all these different names denote something slightly different, or were they interchangeable?
I would have hated to be the one in charge of watching and making sure everyone moved before the 10 seconds expired.